“People are following me, they are still following me. That’s the main reason that I came to the police station. In the future, at any time, if anything happens to me, it’s them.” These are the words of 19-year old Banaz Mahmod as she describes on police videotape the attempts by...

Amal was 10 when she first told someone that her father was subjecting her to repeated sexual abuse. That someone was her mother, who told her “not to speak about this with anybody”. Mustafa was 12 when his Qu’ran teacher started to find reasons to be alone with him and...